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attending it. You will see, therefore,
that there is not much chance for striking
oil in Eastern Ohio. Yet l put great
confidence in our being able to get
abundant gas from other sources.
We are on the geological horizon
with Mscksburg and Cambridge.
There are under US three prolific
sources of oil and gas. One the Clinton
limestone, about 1000 feet above the
Trenton; the corniferous limestone, still
higher by 400 or 500 feet, and, above all,
the great Mscksburg or Berea stone,
which can be reached at depth of about
100 feet. These fields were all planted
in carbon riches from the earth's annular
system by floating and hydro-carbon dust
and oily products in this great polar cur
rent at different ages"
"What Will guide one in the location of
oil or gas tields?"
"There is one feature which the driller
or prospector will always fine to prevail
MORE oR LESS GENERALLY,
and that is heavier fund of carbon and
8 more prolific we'll on that side of the
ridge or anticlinal in advance of the cur
rent. In the Ohio current this fund will
be found on the south side of the antici-
nal, while in the great northern current
the prolific fields will be found on the
western slope. This cannot be explained
by the theory of organisms, but is in
beautiful accord with true philosophic
geology, which has for its immutable
foundation the rock of annular declen.
SION"
elbow long have you entertained these
viewsp"
cit may seem little boastful, but it is
well known by my friends that this view
Of the great petroleum and gas field of
Northwestern Ohio, nearly all of Indiana
and Eastern Illinois, as well as large
areas in Southern Michigan and Central
New York was advocated long before oil
or gas was discovered in the Cincinnati
uplift. Gas may reasonably be looked
for all over it except in the depressions,
which doubtless exist with more or less
frequency"
ais there gas in Southwestern Ohio?"
81 have not the slightest doubt about
it. [ know that this thought antag-
onIzes
THE GENERAL VIEW,
but feel strongly impressed that all that
region, as we'll as TIE greater part of
Southern and Southwest Indiana, is
one vast gas reservoir. The fact that
some wells have failed to reach it proves
only that they We're sunk l. the barren
spots, which must be expected in all
fields. l cannot but put more confidence
in the western field than | can in the
eastern, so far as the TTentOnroCk is con-
cerned, since the great Canadian current
spent it's force largely in that field, and
yet feel sure that later deposits of car
bon have stored Eastern Ohio with meas
ureless wealth, and that if we drill
for IL we will obtain it. Northeastern
and Northern Ohio being more
directly in the line of the Canadian
current in it's strength, it does not
seem likely that either oil or gas will be
found IN paying quantities, except when
the aforementioned branch current run
ming southwark would deposit carbon
dust on It's western margin, and il. seems
likely that this deposit would be confined
to the border counties from Trumoull
southwark"
"Then the man who can trace these
ocean currents, sub-currents and branch
currents can locate oil and gas with some
degree of certainty"
"UnquestiOnably."
This very interesting exposition of the
Annular theory, and its relation to natural
gas, will fully answer the large number
of letters called out by my Fostoria dis
patch of some weeks ago touching the
Vsilian theory. l felt that no man could
explain it so thoroughly as the origina-
tor. TAYLOR.